This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter value that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion …. The indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data finds that the …

-growth story.  While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …

Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …

multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality …

market, together with the increase in the transfers received by households, results in an increase in their income. Poverty …

This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This … paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core. More specifically …, we define a vulnerability measure as an assessment of the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …